@GloamHallow
ever find yourself waving your hands in front of the faucet at a highway rest stop, trying to get the water to come out? now picture one of these things coming up behind you at 85 mph
@KevOnStage
So they're lining up at the altar to ask for prayers for families & friends: "Just lean in and tell me, we'll pray together, you me & Jesus," says the pastor. They lean in and whisper about the secret drugs/affair/illness ... & we all hear every word cuz he's got the lapel mic on
@rossgarber
@nytimes
if you are surprised to learn that not all doctors are medical doctors then i'm not sure why we should rely on your opinion about anything more complicated than toasting bread
@jenniferkates
@bikemamadelphia
I love how the people who swim in dark money like carp in a pond can't WAIT to shout "OOOGA BOOOGA THE UNION MUST HAVE PAID FOR THAT" every time somebody says boo about charter schools
@RexChapman
the donors’ judge protecting the donors’ candidate who shares the donors’ mission of drowning government in the bathtub so they can all keep all the money & get more
@donmoyn
@bariweiss
keyword: “whim.” what weiss & co. have shown all along is that they’re completely clueless about power. they see no difference between a complex power arrangement (layers of people guided by process w/systems of accountability) and a simple one (one dude’s feels)
@RachelMComedy
@davenewworld_2
reminds me of the old joke:
- how are ya?
- ok, on average
- on average?
- yeah, worse than yesterday, better than tomorrow
@JakeAnbinder
I'd take it a step further: for this community, **tyranny** exists only in theory. The only time these folks are on the wrong side of power is when it's time to pay their taxes. The allegorical importance of a story like Maus is lost on people with no empowered enemies
@ElieNYC
two cents: the legal profession needs to recognize that the Federalist Society is an enemy of the law. Everything it does is intended to weaken the law, replacing it with the capricious rule of donors' appointees
@RexChapman
we're seeing from the PGA today what we saw from the GOP back in 2016: America's wealthiest and most powerful people will happily team up with the International Axis of Oligarchs if it means a few more dollars in their pockets
@Deggans
plus it’s not like his own show was built on edgy envelope pushing that challenged social boundaries in some now-impermissible way. it was about “nothing”, right?
@Brendelbored
.... AND: it relies on property to embody voice, and in so doing embodies the notion that your property IS your voice.
Imagine if they were just walking around carrying signs like the rest of us. Imagine how small we would know them to be
@ApoclpseStudent
I'm writing about HOAs for RD and interviewed a handful of passionate HOA critics who are also HOA homeowners. They were full of horror stories about boards, lawyers etc ... but also said things like, "I'd never live without an HOA, what if your neighbor paints the house purple?"
Said it a million times: the lowest day in my professional life was covering Sarah Palin, knowing she was talking utter garbage, and knowing that it was all but impossible to file a report for WHYY that said so plainly. Did my best but ...
"CNN won’t ban guests who have supported the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen, but the network will attempt to keep conversations with those people in safe zones of truth, said people familiar with Licht’s thinking."
@Phil_Lewis_
notable: his *charter* HS. Why notable? Because if it was a true public school, the public’s representatives - school board, mayor - would have the power to change the policy. But because the school is, in effect, a private contractor, nobody can do shit
@Sifill_LDF
the Vaclav Havel lesson: absurdity in public = power at work in private. The rulings are ridiculous because they’re not lawful rulings at all; they’re the whims of the unseen Central Committee
@JakeCorman
@SenatorBrewster
Pennsylvania voter here: denying Brewster's voters their lawful representative was a sickening display of disregard for the most fundamental rights of American citizens - and the most fundamental duties of public officials.
if your policy is that attending Pride parades is ok but attending BLM protests is not, then your policy is about the content of your employees' political speech, not whether they should speak at all
not many commentators have been as square on about all this stuff like
@sarahkendzior
. Far too many Americans can’t leave the fishtank, only seeing DT in our context. But he makes no real sense until you understand him as a junior member of the international Axis of Oligarchs
New
@gaslitnation
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@KevOnStage
(... was at an evangelical church in Poughkeepsie, years ago - I was a guest. Raised Catholic, it was my first four-hour service. Had the best church band I ever saw, they played the same doom-metal riff for like an hour while people got saved)
@twothickscoops
wild thing i learned about Henson from his son's book: he didn't get into tv because he loved puppets. he got into puppets because he loved TV
@fleaskeys
@segalmr
FWIW: I'm the guy who reads all the jokes that people send to Reader's Digest, and my submitters LOVE that joke and send me versions all the time. Along with the one where that skiier Picabo Street goes to work at a hospital and answers the phone with: "Picabo, ICU."
a lot of stuff doesn’t make sense about America, but a big one is that all city schools need fixing, and when they sat almost empty for a whole year we didn’t fix them. contractors could have worked safely long before in-person instruction was safe. but fixing things raises taxes
@RollingStone
@BoredApeYC
"(Full-disclosure: Rolling Stone just announced a partnership with the Apes and is creating a collectible zine — similar to what the magazine did with Billie Eilish — and NFTs.)"
IOW this is an ad, in case you couldn't figure that out from the fact that it's trying to sell shit
@jacobinmag
@BMarchetich
if he really wanted to be president, Bernie had one job after 2016, which was to win over Black voters. he didn't do it and he lost and that's really all there is to it
@TheStalwart
funny, i’m reminded of all the school supplies purchased and extra hours worked by all the public school teachers who keep the nation supplied with productive citizens all these years
Thank you for this dank meme, ceo of multiple corporations including this information website and richest guy in the world who of late has been advertising flagrant white nationalism
@mmasnick
@RexChapman
two cents: a massive amount of Twitter's credibility & success is based on its institutional users. Media, government, advocates. It's posts & info & attention from THEM that really fuels the discourse. Without their participation, Twitter becomes Reddit real fast
passing thought: kinky has come a long way. back then all a super freak needed was incense, wine & candles. these days you need unicorn suits, VR goggles and a party shower just to get started
@quintabrunson
@RBraceySherman
@JeanneAllen
true story: right now some really REALLY rich donors are hiring some really REALLY bad writers to develop what will inevitably be really REALLY bad charter-based sitcoms
@AliVelshi
@DavKat43
and funnily enough he’s doing it all with the backing of American oligarchs & American evangelical Christians. Israel is the 51st state & it’s red
@msolurin
@mcountryman14
Worth remembering is that "defund" is, in fact, the heart of the GOP platform, and has been since Reagan took office.
As Grover Norquist said in 2001: "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
reminded: what we saw in PA was that abortion motivates women across generations within households. Why did abortion rights prove popular in Trump-voting working-class white communities? Maybe because moms and grandmoms talk to their daughters ... & vice versa
A 10-point margin in a state Trump won by less than 1 point is striking. Janet Protasiewicz made inroads in rural Trump areas and youth turnout was way up — due to abortion. I talked to
@PollsAndVotes
and obtained internal Dem data showing what happened:
@ApoclpseStudent
some fun facts: there's like 350k HOAs and about a third are condo towers. Condo HOAs don't turn up in many HOA "horror stories," unless they neglect their maintenance and building falls down (Surfside in FLA). It's in the sprawl-suburbs that lawn/fence/shrub battles get bitter
@willsommer
two cents: the donors decided these convoys were useless, & this is what the base looks like when it tries to do stuff without the donors’ help. Without a bunch of money to organize and defend it, the Tea Party protests would have devolved to the same mumbling rubble
@Sifill_LDF
… source. Highly recommended reading; it’s a history his plays, which in context is a history of how dissidents used speech to confront & defeat power. Havel groks that **absurdity is a critical tool of oppression**, and speaking truth the only defense
@AsteadWesley
something to consider: if you're Tucker's age, like me and many media leaders, you've known the Tuckers since they were in their Reagan Clubs in school. you've *always* known they were Apartheidists: protected & unchangeable. looking away became a habit some can't break
two cents: double the cops, the city wouldn’t be any more attractive to anybody. double the street cleaners, it would be a little more attractive. double the teachers, and people would come in droves. that’s how they sell houses in the suburbs: “great schools”
Started off today's
#phlbudget
hearing by asking the administration how they will position the City of Philadelphia as an employer of choice. To fill vacancies, we need to make the City an attractive place to work!
My basic theory is that American cops control American mayors, not the other way around. We'll see: "A video circulating on social media that depicts a portion of the incident is very concerning to me, & I will have no further comment until the investigation has been completed."
Earlier today, a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper executed a car stop on the Vine Street Expressway in Philadelphia, reportedly for a Motor Vehicle Code violation. Celena Morrison, the City’s executive director of the Office of LGBT Affairs, was in the vehicle that was stopped.
@ksvarnon
true story: from philly, i help edit a national magazine’s “nicest places” contest. readers nominated towns; my job was to google for “red flags,” as editors put it. One day: “Just like Mayberry! So friendly!!” read the nomination for Vidor. So I googled “Vidor” …… NEXT
@ThreatNotation
it's a bad idea to make fun of anybody with a lot of time on their hands. the biggest difference between pianists and DJs is that there's jobs everywhere for DJs
@thejtlewis
@AlexPattyy
"He's allowed."
He's allowed to pick his nose and eat it too. In fact he's allowed to pick his nose and give it to you to eat. And you can eat it! You're allowed!
it’s a union-driven scam to prop up a failing roadway, is what it is. drivers have rights & deserve roadway choice. DOT monopoly must end and its budget reworked to support charter highways, travel vouchers, and cybercommutes
#InternationalDogDay
In March 1993, twelve bombs tore apart the city of Mumbai, leaving behind 257 dead and 713 injured.
But did you know these numbers could easily have reached the thousands if not for a brave Labrador-Retriever named Zanjeer?
basically: modern Trump is a product of the fall of the Soviets; stolen money flooded real estate and he was just another collapsed tent who got propped up to launder the takings. If the same dynamic is at work in tech they're in trouble
M'lady found this while canvassing in the Philly suburbs: "Liz Cheney's theory of the case has proven largely correct: There really was a sliver of GOP-leaning voters that could be induced to vote against MAGA candidates if their extremism was highlighted effectively."
Overlooked story: GOP's awful performance represents major vindication for Liz Cheney.
*Virtually all key election deniers running for governor and secretary of state lost
*Cheney's chief rival Elise Stefanik made a bet on MAGA that failed disastrously
@rico_rants
it’s a cargo cult. they saw influencers with blue checks & concluded that blue checks create influence. they built wooden planes and now they’re sitting next to them on the beach waiting for the cargo to come
.... so a theme for me: after 30 years of journalism & research it's clear. If it's not what conservatives want, they'll sabotage it. The only reason we got some truth from the
#January6thHearings
is that cons weren't there to bury them garbage. Now here come the garbage trucks
If Tony Ornato really wants to respond to Cassidy Hutchinson under oath, great. He can be asked about her *other* claims: Did he tell Meadows and Trump that armed supporters wanted to enter the rally? Did Trump demand to go to the Capitol?
Bring it on:
On this note: the thing to watch in PA, I’m told, is this business of GOP legislators invalidating the whole thing over spurious vote fraud charges and picking their own electors. They’re serious about that one
1) Now that Trump mobilized his far right army for a struggle over the results, we need to take the possibility that he'll try to steal the election more seriously.
Importantly, Trump again confirmed that he expects SCOTUS to invalidate ballots.
My fave line of the night, from parent/teacher Alexis Zhao: "I seriously wonder if the people who made this plan have actually met a child. Our middle schoolers will scream 'coronavirus!' whenever anyone sneezes, and lick their hands and chase people ... cuz they’re KIDS.”
#Phled
@GuyBeinDude
as somebody put it: a calculator will always tell you that 2+2=4. But an AI calculator will gladly tell you that 2+2=5, especially if 5 buys a few premium ads or whatever
@3thirty6halos
@israel_qrz
@Dubsco
agent called this morning: “the coaches know your name, kid. they’re talking about you in the room. keep it up. focus …”
@joshtpm
their guy runs it, their money has the last word. looks to me like the Saudis mugged the PGA in the boys room and sent it back to class with no lunch money and a wedgie that won't clear for week